Risk of War with North Korea still high

20/01/2018

"Basically, the IOC is the one that invites countries to the Olympics", Lee told reporters at Incheon International Airport.

Twenty nations meeting in the Canadian city of Vancouver agreed on Tuesday to consider tougher sanctions to press North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons and U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson warned the North it could trigger a military response if it did not choose dialogue.

"Seeing good results in competitions thanks to the cheering squad would enable the North Koreans to say they contributed to a successful Olympics and the South Korean government would likely agree", said Paik.

The sanctions now bar nearly all exports from North Korea and all oil exports to the country, except for 500,000 barrels of refined fuel annually, as US Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Economic Bureau Sandra Oudkirk explained in a telephone briefing with African journalists on Wednesday.

Prior to the Games, both sides will carry out joint training for skiers at the North's Masik Pass resort and a cultural event at the Mount Kumgang resort, for which Seoul officials plan to visit the sites next week. Among the agreements made on Wednesday, according to Korean news outlet Yonhap, were for North Korea to send a team to the Paralympics, being held in Pyeongchang from March 9 to 18.

North Korea has proposed sending a seven-member delegation to the South on Saturday to make advance preparations for the dispatch of an art troupe during the PyeongChang Olympics. "We hope to build on this initial breakthrough to ease tension in the region and forge favorable conditions for a peaceful resolution of the North Korean nuclear issue".

North Korean media were referring to the US president's response to Kim's New Year's Day taunt two weeks ago that his nuclear button was always on his desk. The name displayed during the marches was "Korea", although the North and South competed separately for medals. The IOC said recently it has "kept the door open" for North Korea to take part in the games.

"There are many considerations with regard to the impact of these proposals on the other participating NOCs (national Olympic committees) and athletes".

"All our decisions were taken by consensus of the panel for each individual athlete, all of which were reviewed anonymously", said panel chair Valerie Fourneyron.

The two Koreas have sent joint teams to major worldwide sports events twice previously, both in 1991. The flag made its first public appearance in 1991 when Seoul and Pyongyang formed a unified team to contest the world table tennis championship in Japan.

During an era of detente in the 2000s, their athletes marched together in the opening and closing ceremonies of nine global sporting events, including the 2000 Sydney Olympics, but they failed to produce a joint team. It last flew over a joint delegation at the 2006 winter Olympics in Turin, Italy.

This December 1, 2017 picture released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency on December 2, 2017 shows North Korean soldiers and Pyongyang residents holding a rally to celebrate the North's declaration on November 29 it had achieved full nuclear statehood. North Korea led by Kim Jong Un already laid out the demand back in June past year.

On Tuesday, the North said a 140-person orchestra would perform in South Korea during the Games.

The collaboration between the two Koreas is happening amid growing worldwide pressure on North Korea to abandon its accelerating programme of testing nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles to deliver them.

Kim Ki-hong, while leaving for the working-level talks, was quoted as telling reporters that the South and the North would each hold discussion with the International Olympic Committee first.

However, his father, Kim Jong-il, disapproved of the relationship and ordered it to end. Won Kil-u, the vice sports minister for North Korea, will also be there. The two, both former bobsleigh athletes and coaches, would prepare and coach the team themselves. Defections are likely a concern, along with what their minders might deem to be ideological "contamination", so they are kept under close scrutiny. South Korea is in the middle of analyzing the demand from the Hermit country.

IOC President Thomas Bach will chair a four-party meeting Saturday to discuss the North's presence at the February 9-25 games, the first Winter Games to take place in South Korea.

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